Every year, I get one email from one person asking me to make a post on AP.net about their birthday. That person is Gunz from The Gunz Show and today is his birthday. Today is also Jack Barakat's birthday, and he got an early birthday present this year when All Time Low's Future Hearts was the best-selling album in the world, so you shouldn't feel the need to go shopping for him now. Good job to both of these people for surviving one more year.

Today is full of awesome birthdays. Zack Merrick (All Time Low), Sydney Sierota (Echosmith) and Jay Sakong (Owel) were all born today and have graced us with great music so head to the replies and show them some love.

Sony's first Walkman went on sale 35 years ago today. The Verge has a recap on the history of this iconic portable music player.

The first of Sony's iconic portable cassette tape players went on sale on this day, July 1st, back in 1979 for $150. As the story goes, Sony co-founder Masaru Ibuka got the wheels turning months before when he asked for a way to listen to opera that was more portable than Sony's existing TC-D5 cassette players. The charge fell to Sony designer Norio Ohga, who built a prototype out of Sony's Pressman cassette recorder in time for Ibuka's next flight.

Happy birthday to Jack Barakat of All Time Low, who turns 14 years old today, and also to AP.net user Gunz of Idobi's The Gunz Show, who texted us to make sure we posted about his birthday, and who turns 46 this year.